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New Delhi, Jan 14: Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said there will be no Foreign Head of State or Head of Government as the Chief Guest for India’s Republic Day 2021 event due to the global Covid-19 situation, days after UK PM cancelled visit.
This will be the first time in at least five decades that the Republic Day celebrations, seen as a high point in India’s diplomatic calendar, will not have a chief guest.
For the first time in five and a half decades Republic Day unlikely to have chief guest
The last time that the Republic Day did not have a chief guest was in 1966, the Indira Gandhi was sworn in as the prime minister following the death of Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri.
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